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The Art of Surrender
Surrender is not defeat. Surrender is not giving up. Surrender is ‘allowing’ in the moment. Each day, and more specifically each moment, we have an opportunity to practice the art of surrendering. Whether we are late for an appointment, waiting for a train, or feeling overwhelmed by life, we have a choice. We hit a…
Read MoreRainer Maria Rilke Poem – Letters to a Young Poet
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke “Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart. Love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a foreign language. The point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps someday you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your…
Read MoreVulnerability Quote
“Vulnerability is about having the courage to show up and be seen” Brene Brown
Read MoreQuote on Perfectionism –
“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.” Anna Quindlen
Read MoreA Quote About Openness – Pema Chodron
“Whether we’re seeking inner peace or global peace or a combination of the two, the way to experience it is to build on the foundation of unconditional openness to all that arises.” Pema Chodron
Read MoreA Quote About Truth
”There are two kinds of truth. Truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is a science, and the second is an art” Raymond Chandler
Read MoreTending to Your Heart-Rediscovering the Meaning of Valentine’s Day
“How much we know and understand ourselves is critically important, but there is something that is even more essential to living a Wholehearted life: loving ourselves.” Brene Brown February is the month of love. For a lot of people, Valentine’s Day can be a triggering day filled with feelings of unworthiness or sadness. What if…
Read MoreConscious Breathing – a quote by Eckhart Tolle
Conscious breathing, which is a powerful meditation in its own right, will gradually put you in touch with the body…As soon as your habitual state changes from being out of the body and trapped in your mind, to being in the body and present in the Now, your physical body will feel lighter, clearer, more…
Read MoreYour Interpretation of Reality-a quote from Pema Chodron
Seeing when you justify yourself and when you blame others is not a reason to criticize yourself, but actually an opportunity to recognize what all people do and how it imprisons us in a very limited perspective of this world. It’s a chance to see that you’re holding on to your interpretation of reality; it…
Read MoreLonging…
Longing, defined as a strong, persistent desire or craving, especially for something unattainable or distant. Longing can show up in many forms: Longing to be somewhere else, to be with someone else, to be someone else or even perhaps to feel something else. Longing can remove us from the present moment, wishing we were somewhere…
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